Source: Medical College of Georgia
Date: December 4, 2006
Summary:
Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells that occurs in Parkinson's disease and for replacing cells lost to the disease, scientists say. Research published in the current issue of The Journal of Neuroscience shows a human neural stem cell transplant essentially enables an animal with symptoms of Parkinson’s to continue functioning normally rather than displaying the progressive loss of movement control that characterizes the disease.
